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Posted on 09/01/2014 4:06:47 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
... It has been amazing to watch Chow slip to third place. Rob Ford, the great helmsman of punk politics, has now crashed out in front of the woman who (the Toronto Star long assured us) was supposed to waltz away with the race, fresh from her stint as MP in the House of Commons. Ms. Chow has plummeted markedly — from her start at 38% to a despairing 23%....
Does the result flow from Mr. Ford’s largely unacknowledged campaigning genius? Is there another person in Toronto, or all of Canada, who could carry the burdens he does, almost all of which — it is unnecessary to point out — he has placed obligingly on himself? Is there another who could survive the mockery of every late-night comedian in North America, survive a campaign interruption to take a respite at a rehabilitation centre — and remain a very, very real contender?
There is no one else who could work such a miracle. Mr. Ford has gifts, and it will not do to say he doesn’t.
But some of the credit plainly goes to Olivia Chow. When asked during a media event how she would be different from Rob Ford’s tax-and-spend mayoral predecessor, David Miller, she offered the sneering reply: “I’m not white. Not male. Want to start there?”...
This race is not about skin colour or sex. It is very much about the divide between those who think they are always right, and a fair number of almost everyone else.
The pure snobbery of the anti-Ford fighters is Rob Ford’s fundamental political energy, the oilsands fuelling his campaign machine. He thrives when they despise. And since virtually everything he does causes them to despise all the more, he has more than enough fuel to power him through the next ...
(Excerpt) Read more at fullcomment.nationalpost.com ...
Rob Ford, perpetual target of leftist late-night comedians in the US (while Obama gets a free ride) and bleeding-heart media in Canada, still has lots of support - read the site comments below the article to see the way Toronto voters really feel!
Here's a good example -
"... the biggest reason ford is getting support is because he represents the person that has never 'fit in'... the person that is always 'at the back of the bus'... the person that was never seen as 'good enough'... the person that was always 'picked on'... "
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Rob Ford certainly has guts. And at least he’s not a whiny liberal weasel. A little nutty, but, oh well.
I live outside the GTA,
but if I were a voter, the above would be a delicious motivation to vote for Ford.
Well I'm not Canadian at all, but look who we elected as president twice. So people in glass houses and all. Isn't that Chow person a leftist. Maybe most Canadians have had enough of that crap.
This writer has wit and style!
One of the commenters said Chow was “...Canada’s Yoko Ono.”
And the comment just below -
“Yoko and Chow share so many qualities...apart from appearance, their incredible stupidity and ability to make money doing nothing.”
Going on 2200 comments! LOL! Ford sure ignites controversy.
That’s my Rob :)
To get an idea of what’s happening on the street- the polls only show part of the story because turnout this time around will probably be record-breaking. I have a lot of neighbours who registered to vote for the first time ever and they’re all saying they did so to vote for Ford.
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